"I want you to come live with me, and die with me, and everything with me."

- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"When I say, 'I love you,' it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a heck of a person."